by Descartes Datamyne | Aug 17, 2015 | Markets, Trade Data
The repercussions from August 12’s deadly Tianjin blast continue to be felt across global supply chains. Generally ranked among China’s (and by extension the world’s) top 10 ports, Tianjin handled US$45,681,904,539 worth of exports, accounting 6.10% of the country’s...
by Descartes Datamyne | Aug 13, 2015 | Industry Coverage
Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza factory collapse in 2013, which buried over 1,100 workers, arrested the attention of American consumers. But the environmental crisis in Asia, driven by outsourced apparel manufacturing and impacting hundreds of millions of people, has gone...
by Descartes Datamyne | Aug 13, 2015 | Imports, Trade Policy
A trade complaint concerning hot-rolled steel filed with the Department of Commerce and US Trade Commission Tuesday is the latest move in a US steelmakers pushback against low price imports that “have been flooding our shores, substantially reducing selling prices,...